“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.” LifeEarthLinesAlivePerspectiveLuckyNormalSpringPercentDiedWinnerDawnMisfortunesCosmicAncestorOrganismsLiving ThingsOffspringUnbroken Author:Daniel Dennett
“There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.” PersonsSuccessLinesLevelsSuccessfulDoubtPercentCommitmentNegativeTasksAriseWinnerPerformingRecognizingNegative ThoughtsSuccessful Person Author:Nicole Haislett
“The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?” LongBigsLastsFacesNightPercentVoteWinnerSenatorsLast NightJohn KerryHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Jay Leno
“In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.” Has BeensStatesFactsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesCenturyPercentWinnerPrizePregnancyRepresentatives20th CenturyNobelNobel PrizeJewish CommunityNobel Prize Winners Author:Jon Porter
“Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.” NextWinningSportsPositionPercentShotsBallsGolfWinnerEighty Author:Ben Hogan
“Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very interested in a report by the McKinsey consulting firm that concluded that 40 percent of everything that we have to do to mitigate our emissions are net economic winners. They are cost effective and the most cost effective is not wasting energy. That's actually going to be the largest part of this whole journey, I believe - using less energy with the same beneficial results.” BelieveImportantWholeWould BeEnergyI BelieveResultsJourneyEconomicCostPercentSexyWinnerFirmExpensiveReportsBeneficialEmissionsConsulting Author:Jay Inslee
“I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.” IfsFeelsEndsFivePercentWinnerSeventiesAlready Won Author:Sara Quin
“Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.” WayInspirationalHumansMeanRealSpiritLanguageHalfRightsViolenceConflictSolutionsPercentHundredPracticalsDialogueCompromiseWinnerLoserReconciliationDisagreementNon ViolenceHuman Language Author:Dalai Lama